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and indeed when are we going to see the transparency from tony blair and from gordon brown? second, second, second issue -- second issue, his questions about andy gillison. >> order, the house is getting overexcited again. i'm glad it's calmed down and we want to listen to what the prime minister to say. >> and he asks questions about andy coulson, no one has raised a single question about his conduct at number 10 downing street and there was only one party with a news national executive with a cloud in his head sitting in his office. third question, the questions he raising about my chief of staff edward luellen. is he honestly saying when it comes to the proposed meeting with the john yates is the leader of the opposition suggesting that he knows better than the chairman of the home secretary than the cabinet secretary than john yates and paul stevenson and all these people including jeremy hayward who by the way who worked diligently for tony blair and gordon brown. is he saying all those people are wrong and he's right? let me just answer the question about sir paul's re
and indeed when are we going to see the transparency from tony blair and from gordon brown? second, second, second issue -- second issue, his questions about andy gillison. >> order, the house is getting overexcited again. i'm glad it's calmed down and we want to listen to what the prime minister to say. >> and he asks questions about andy coulson, no one has raised a single question about his conduct at number 10 downing street and there was only one party with a news national...
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. >> tony blair called him three times in the 10 days before the war on iraq. he called him on the eve of invasion. does rupert murdoch's power over british politicians extent to american politicians as well? >> of course, i have no detailed knowledge of american politics but there's no doubt that sense fox news came on the scene, the growth of the more exotic right wing and politics, the tea party, and a lot of other shock jocks and so on, there is no doubt that their influence is on the american politicians which i deplore. he is better able to cope with murdoch than the uk. as a prime minister, you have to also ask his permission to do stuff. he has become an over might be subject. david cameron is often photographed in the company of the chief executive of mr. murdoch's executive -- and mr. murdoch's british operations. at some point, he needs to be seen off. >> we have continued fallout from this. they have identified 4000 possible phone hacking victims and hundreds more have contacted them saying that they might have been targeted. we have the latest on t
. >> tony blair called him three times in the 10 days before the war on iraq. he called him on the eve of invasion. does rupert murdoch's power over british politicians extent to american politicians as well? >> of course, i have no detailed knowledge of american politics but there's no doubt that sense fox news came on the scene, the growth of the more exotic right wing and politics, the tea party, and a lot of other shock jocks and so on, there is no doubt that their influence is...
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he was press secretary for former prime minister tony blair. i spoke to him earlier from london. we talked about that so-called poisonous relationship. but first, i asked him how he thought murdoch handled the hearing today. >> i think what people may be a bit surprised by in terms of his whole town before the appearance of the mp" parliament, was the sense of almost being divorced from a lot of the events have been convulsing part of his company, an important part of his company here in the uk and the metropolitan police and the british government and the british political system. and yet even questions you really would have thought he would have answers to, he didn't. one point, for example, at which somebody raised -- run of the mps raised a previous select committee report into activities at his newspaper, and he honestly looked like he was being informed about this for the first time in his life. and i think people will be quite surprised by that, and i thought with james as well, although he was clearly much more on top of the detail, that he too, there are areas where fran
he was press secretary for former prime minister tony blair. i spoke to him earlier from london. we talked about that so-called poisonous relationship. but first, i asked him how he thought murdoch handled the hearing today. >> i think what people may be a bit surprised by in terms of his whole town before the appearance of the mp" parliament, was the sense of almost being divorced from a lot of the events have been convulsing part of his company, an important part of his company...
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there's a whole set you can to make socially that set was a different set when labor in power with tony blair but all of it is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely. the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen is and i believe the last man the ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena last bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned i want would you employ a man who's already had. to resign over phone hacking allegations why would you take him to the heart of government where he could have access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british democracy. you can have your say on that story on our website dot com in our lat
there's a whole set you can to make socially that set was a different set when labor in power with tony blair but all of it is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely. the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen is and i believe the last...
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. >> and the man in the streets as he remembers tony blair topping off to consort with rupert on the island and gordon brown constantly having his door open to visiting murdoch's and all of that. i do not think this is strictly a conservative-labor issue. there are those who believe david cameron should have had andy resign over the first allegations of hacking. he looks a bit stupid now. it does not do anything for his authority. uso voluble yesterday, saying that this is an outrage -- he was so valuable yesterday, saying that this is an outrage and something must be done about it. >> in other news of the world, yemeni president ali abdullah saleh has appeared on state television just months after the rocket attack on his compound that nearly killed him. he has undergone eight successful operations to treat his burns. the european central bank has raised its main interest rate by one-quarter of a percent to try to keep the lid on inflation. the rate is now 1.5%. correspondents say the decision is controversial because the country is already struggling with the government debt crisis
. >> and the man in the streets as he remembers tony blair topping off to consort with rupert on the island and gordon brown constantly having his door open to visiting murdoch's and all of that. i do not think this is strictly a conservative-labor issue. there are those who believe david cameron should have had andy resign over the first allegations of hacking. he looks a bit stupid now. it does not do anything for his authority. uso voluble yesterday, saying that this is an outrage --...
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. >> joining me now from london is the deputy prime minister went tony blair was in power. 45 of his mobile phone messages were hacked into. this is a very sorry tale. it goes back to 2006 when your own messages were broken into. how evasive was that? >> the police kept in mind that that was so. i had to go to the court and force them to commit and setup a new inquiry. that is finding all of disinformation. the information was available before. why didn't the police act on it instead of the nine that my phone messages had been broken into? now we are learning the appalling situation of the phone's not only having messages on them, the girl found that not only were they wiped off, they were wiped off by the news of the world to add more information so they could get more stories so the man to sell it to the press. that is murder of's press. -- murdoch's press. he is now backing rebecca brooks. she is doing the inquiry. she was the editor. >> are we dealing with this situation both here and the u.s. where the murdoch news empire is very powerful as well and back there and britain, poli
. >> joining me now from london is the deputy prime minister went tony blair was in power. 45 of his mobile phone messages were hacked into. this is a very sorry tale. it goes back to 2006 when your own messages were broken into. how evasive was that? >> the police kept in mind that that was so. i had to go to the court and force them to commit and setup a new inquiry. that is finding all of disinformation. the information was available before. why didn't the police act on it...
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blair but all of that is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely and indeed the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last may. no ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented either in the newspapers or in the political arena that's bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned and why would your employer a man who's already had to resign over phone hacking allegations why would you take him to the heart of government where he could have access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british democracy. thoughts there john go on you can have your say on the story as well and a website we're still running a question tonight about see dot com we're ask
blair but all of that is too cozy and too comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely and indeed the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and those two areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last may. no ordinary people in britain their views have not really been represented either...
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. >> and the man in the streets as he remembers tony blair topping off to consort with rupert on the island and gordon brown constantly having his door open to visiting murdoch's and all of that. i do not think this is strictly a conservative-labor issue. there are those who believe david cameron should have had andy resign over the first allegations of hacking. he looks a bit stupid now. it does not do anything for his authority. uso voluble yesterday, saying that this is an outrage -- he was so valuable yesterday, saying that this is an outrage and something must be done about it. >> in other news of the world, yemeni president ali abdullah saleh has appeared on state television just months after the rocket attack on his compound that nearly killed him. he has undergone eight successful operations to treat his burns. the european central bank has raised its main interest rate by one-quarter of a percent to try to keep the lid on inflation. the rate is now 1.5%. correspondents say the decision is controversial because the country is already struggling with the government debt crisis
. >> and the man in the streets as he remembers tony blair topping off to consort with rupert on the island and gordon brown constantly having his door open to visiting murdoch's and all of that. i do not think this is strictly a conservative-labor issue. there are those who believe david cameron should have had andy resign over the first allegations of hacking. he looks a bit stupid now. it does not do anything for his authority. uso voluble yesterday, saying that this is an outrage --...
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i don't share tony blair's regret on freedom of information. it has been a good thing. what we're looking at here is more transparency so people can see who is meeting or who is doing rather than have a process of discovery. what this government to bring is a range of areas, having an original transparency to reduce the need for expensive discovery. >> philip lee. >> i welcome the prime minister's plans on changing a meeting with members of the media. can i pressed him on the definition of media? in a world in which people increasingly -- they share their news, i would suggest those organizations and meetings with them should be in the public domain. >> you raise a good point. media and now encompasses a wide range of things. that is one of the reasons it is necessary to consult on this change to ministerial code because i want to do it in a way that is clear and works well. >> mr. speaker, an outraged public demands action and accepts leadership and the public interest. every state the prime minister has been slow to act. does he agree -- does he agree that rupert murd
i don't share tony blair's regret on freedom of information. it has been a good thing. what we're looking at here is more transparency so people can see who is meeting or who is doing rather than have a process of discovery. what this government to bring is a range of areas, having an original transparency to reduce the need for expensive discovery. >> philip lee. >> i welcome the prime minister's plans on changing a meeting with members of the media. can i pressed him on the...
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blair flew to australia to get on bended need to ask to ask murdoch for his endorsement and murdoch flipped over to labor to the equivalent of the democratic party in this case it's about profit empowered not about politics for murdoch gordon brown the next prime minister attended rebecca brooks as wedding protege david cameron the current prime minister supported was supported murdoch and vice a versa and even hired andy cole some one of its editors the guy who was running news of the world when they were hacking phones as press secretary brits are waking up to the fact that murdoch has been manipulating their politics but americans the path through the republican nomination to the reality is through fox news if you don't get on fox news if you're ignored by fox news you're republican you never going to you know there's nowhere to go but you get a softball treatment on their shows it's the only network in fact most republican candidates will even go out if murdoch doesn't support you here's your doomed. but back in one nine hundred seventy roger ailes proposed g.o.p. t.v. nixon her
blair flew to australia to get on bended need to ask to ask murdoch for his endorsement and murdoch flipped over to labor to the equivalent of the democratic party in this case it's about profit empowered not about politics for murdoch gordon brown the next prime minister attended rebecca brooks as wedding protege david cameron the current prime minister supported was supported murdoch and vice a versa and even hired andy cole some one of its editors the guy who was running news of the world...
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. >> joining me now from london is the deputy prime minister went tony blair was in power. 45 of his mobile phone messages were hacked into. this is a very sorry tale. it goes back to 2006 when your own messages were broken into. how evasive was that? >> the police kept in mind that that was so. i had to go to the court and force them to commit and setup a new inquiry. that is finding all of disinformation. the information was available before. why didn't the police act on it instead of the nine that my phone messages had been broken into? now we are learning the appalling situation of the phone's not only having messages on them, the girl found that not only were they wiped off, they were wiped off by the news of the world to add more information so they could get more stories so the man to sell it to the press. that is murder of's press. -- murdoch's press. he is now backing rebecca brooks. she is doing the inquiry. she was the editor. >> are we dealing with this situation both here and the u.s. where the murdoch news empire is very powerful as well and back there and britain, poli
. >> joining me now from london is the deputy prime minister went tony blair was in power. 45 of his mobile phone messages were hacked into. this is a very sorry tale. it goes back to 2006 when your own messages were broken into. how evasive was that? >> the police kept in mind that that was so. i had to go to the court and force them to commit and setup a new inquiry. that is finding all of disinformation. the information was available before. why didn't the police act on it...
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tony blair's press secretary alastair campbell wrote in his own diaries we got rupert murdoch through the back door. so here was a chief of a media conglomerate, international conglomerate repeatedly going this through number 10, regardless of the shade of the prime minister. he had enormous influence and power. it's interesting to see what happened in the past two weeks. until two weeks ago, every politician was fawning over this man. they kissed his ring, sought his patronage, tried their level best to not stop him from growing his organization. they know what has happened at news international has been criminal, and they're fawning over this man has come to a tragic and catastrophic end. >>> well, as michael kinsley once said, the best flattery is insincere flattery. this guy has had a lot going his way for too long, perhaps. anyway, maybe the is world is getting even. thank you both. >>> up next, now martin shine is leading a different campaign. he ace coming here next year ale there was a 93% increase in cyber attacks. year ale in financial transactions... on devices... in social
tony blair's press secretary alastair campbell wrote in his own diaries we got rupert murdoch through the back door. so here was a chief of a media conglomerate, international conglomerate repeatedly going this through number 10, regardless of the shade of the prime minister. he had enormous influence and power. it's interesting to see what happened in the past two weeks. until two weeks ago, every politician was fawning over this man. they kissed his ring, sought his patronage, tried their...
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blair, similar? >> probably similar, and maybe in the last few years a little more, but i mean, i can if you want the exact numbers, i can do my best to get that, but strangely, it was under labor prime ministers that i was a regular to downing street, and not the current administration. >> and do you think that there was a change of emphasis when you were at either the "sun" or the chief executive of "news international" because it struck me growing up that the "sun" and the "news of the world" and particularly the "sun" was a rather antiestablishment kind of publication, and always seemed to me the sort of paper that was on the side of the little person fighting the establishment. would you say that when you became editor and obviously your relationship with those prime ministers, there was a shift in actually the "news international" being aer pat p the establishment as opposed to the anti-establishment. >> well, considering the number of complaints i would get from the i prime ministers about the
blair, similar? >> probably similar, and maybe in the last few years a little more, but i mean, i can if you want the exact numbers, i can do my best to get that, but strangely, it was under labor prime ministers that i was a regular to downing street, and not the current administration. >> and do you think that there was a change of emphasis when you were at either the "sun" or the chief executive of "news international" because it struck me growing up that the...
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alister campbell, former press spokesman for former prime minister tony blair. john burns of t "new york times," and roger cohen of t "new york times" plu the editor of bloomberg business week >> we've worked non-stop on this story for two and a half years dde'e' ncentrated rr guns on the newew o ohe world because that's where the evidence was. so i think once the judicial inquiry startsopening they're going to want ee everybody and ask very tough questions and in a sma world where people chge from one newspaper to another all the time it's likely that somof these techniques transfer from newsroom to newsroom. >> rose: we conclude with paul farmer of the harvard medical scol. he has a newook called "haiti after the earthquake." >> i hope that this book helps contribute to a discussion about humanitarian relief, disaster response and development assistance. and i hope that people also learn something from the one experience in coordinating, somewhat aggressively, many say, humanitarian relief they've insisted if you want to work there, you have to be a part of th
alister campbell, former press spokesman for former prime minister tony blair. john burns of t "new york times," and roger cohen of t "new york times" plu the editor of bloomberg business week >> we've worked non-stop on this story for two and a half years dde'e' ncentrated rr guns on the newew o ohe world because that's where the evidence was. so i think once the judicial inquiry startsopening they're going to want ee everybody and ask very tough questions and in a...
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that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes it led to scrutiny of tony blair's decision to invade iraq by extraordinary coincidence caylee's body was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hordes on the eighteenth of july two thousand and three it was british journalist andrew gilligan who david kelly had spoken to to publicize his belief that the forty five minute claim had been exaggerated iligan believes there are similarities between kelly and sean hoare being at the center of one of these storms a terrifying experience i really don't believe all sure was murder because. i simply don't think it would have been in anyone's interest to murder them once they got into the public spotlight anyone with an iota of sense in government would have known that to kill them we're just we're just amplify the story i think it's similar i think both were under enormous pressure from their roles as whistleblowers and and found it difficult to cope with that pressure short haul with evidence could have been crucial to proving that the news of the world edi
that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes it led to scrutiny of tony blair's decision to invade iraq by extraordinary coincidence caylee's body was discovered exactly eight years before that of sean hordes on the eighteenth of july two thousand and three it was british journalist andrew gilligan who david kelly had spoken to to publicize his belief that the forty five minute claim had been exaggerated iligan believes there are similarities between kelly and...
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prime minister david cameron as long as he entered number ten downing street through the back door tony blair flew to australia to beg murdoch for his support and when it was all said and done as we're learning now the corrupt tentacles of rupert murdoch's media empire wrapped around not just the british news media and the british government but even the british police force shooting off black ink of distrust around the very same institutions that are supposed to foster trust between citizens and their democratic government today that trust in the u.k. is broken so how long will it be before americans realize that the control of the british political system that sees is very similar to the power he has in america with his ownership of the wall street journal the new york post fox news and t.v. stations all around the country just like how every prime minister since margaret thatcher has had to kiss rupert murdoch's feet to get elected so too does pretty much every republican in the united states the fact is that no republican politician in america can rise to significant national office
prime minister david cameron as long as he entered number ten downing street through the back door tony blair flew to australia to beg murdoch for his support and when it was all said and done as we're learning now the corrupt tentacles of rupert murdoch's media empire wrapped around not just the british news media and the british government but even the british police force shooting off black ink of distrust around the very same institutions that are supposed to foster trust between citizens...
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he was the press spokesman for tony blair and guess what he said in his diaries. we ushered in rupert murdoch through the backdoor at number 10. this man had full and free access to the most senior individuals elected in the united kingdom. he had close relationships with the editors of his newspapers. for example, piers morgan who was the editor for 18 months in his recollection writes that rupert murdoch spoke to him at least once a week for 18 months. we have a vast contrast between a man sitting before a house of commons committee, incapable of remembering anything, and idea individuals who interacted with him remember everything is it really possible that rupert murdoch knew nothing? absolutely? rupert murdoch knew nothing, absolutely zero? and remember, he had newspapers under his control that were delivering the most spectacular stories, stories about members of the royal family asking 500,000 pounds to allow people access to prince andrew. he -- that's the sort of story that his newspaper was delivering. members of parliament, for example, caught in bed wi
he was the press spokesman for tony blair and guess what he said in his diaries. we ushered in rupert murdoch through the backdoor at number 10. this man had full and free access to the most senior individuals elected in the united kingdom. he had close relationships with the editors of his newspapers. for example, piers morgan who was the editor for 18 months in his recollection writes that rupert murdoch spoke to him at least once a week for 18 months. we have a vast contrast between a man...
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the points martin made about the back door entry he had to 10 downing to david cameron and tony blair. there are political figures, mostly in the republican party, but not exclusively, that have bowed to rupert murdoch, that have cultivated him. in fact, hillary clinton, when she was running for the senate did, and so this is a guy who's clearly enjoyed the political influence and that's clearly taken a huge blow as a result of this scandal
the points martin made about the back door entry he had to 10 downing to david cameron and tony blair. there are political figures, mostly in the republican party, but not exclusively, that have bowed to rupert murdoch, that have cultivated him. in fact, hillary clinton, when she was running for the senate did, and so this is a guy who's clearly enjoyed the political influence and that's clearly taken a huge blow as a result of this scandal
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it's basically conservative even if it's under the guise of new labor like tony blair is a conservative was ok so he establishes a hyper partisan democracy where half the population will not ever see that he is doing any wrong or the audience of fox news will they be shocked that he tapped the phones of nine eleven victims know he won't really know and of course their defense they say something about free speech this is the right to run regulated protects free speech and they're broke the law and they're justifying their getting out their so-called truth as justifies or breaking the law so let's see if the department of justice will get involved because news corps is a u.s. listed company rupert murdoch's news corp could face one hundred million dollars bill for u.s. investigation into police payments dr evil here one hundred million dollars fine they're facing for forty four billion dollars going to be in los angeles or clear about this that all it means is that they call of gold or morgan and they borrow one hundred million which then morgan will put on to the taxpayer tab as part of
it's basically conservative even if it's under the guise of new labor like tony blair is a conservative was ok so he establishes a hyper partisan democracy where half the population will not ever see that he is doing any wrong or the audience of fox news will they be shocked that he tapped the phones of nine eleven victims know he won't really know and of course their defense they say something about free speech this is the right to run regulated protects free speech and they're broke the law...
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blair had flown to australia to to you know bend his knee in front of murdoch to get his endorsement when he was going to run for prime minister of gordon brown did how david cameron the current prime minister did all three of these guys you know went to a guy who owned the newspapers in the u.k. and said please make us president and the person on one of the sunday shows here in the u.s. that i watched on the big network shows said you know fortunately we have nothing like that here in the united states and i'm thinking wait a minute how do you get to the republican presidential nomination without going through fox news don't we have basically the exact same thing going on here in the united states at least with regard to the republican party where if you want to be a nominee if you want to be taken seriously you have to have the blessing of roger ailes and rupert murdoch that's absolutely correct that's absolutely correct he built that system out in the u.k. the blogs are go and he's nonstop for many years and had a similar insolence on american. our influence rich is what i'm. is i
blair had flown to australia to to you know bend his knee in front of murdoch to get his endorsement when he was going to run for prime minister of gordon brown did how david cameron the current prime minister did all three of these guys you know went to a guy who owned the newspapers in the u.k. and said please make us president and the person on one of the sunday shows here in the u.s. that i watched on the big network shows said you know fortunately we have nothing like that here in the...